Week 8 day 1 this morning, which I confess was a struggle, had to walk a couple of times to get a breather (only for 30 seconds though), excuses incoming.... I've had a cold all week and have had low energy levels plus I played an hour football (soccer) last night... but I finished it..... I'm planning on breaking from the program on week 9, rather than run the time I'm going to run the distance in whatever time I take to do it, then I can work to reducing that benchmark time. Next step - Iron Man (aye right!)

Yeah.....I finished I finished !!!!! Yesterday was my last day on the C25K program and it was awesome. If someone had asked me 8 weeks ago to run 35 minutes straight I would have died laughing. Now to be honest yesterday was horrible if I must say so myself. I have been sick all week with a cold and no energy. I knew I had one day left and I didnt want to miss it but I didnt know if I could do it or not. Around 12:30 I finally drug myself off the couch and said lets see what Ive got. Of course I started with my 5 min warm up and while doing that I was feeling like today was going to be my first failure of the program. But I kept walking then into jogging. After about 5 minutes of jogging my chest and head didnt seem to bother me to much. That was until around 25 minutes into the run. I thought....please let me atleast get to 28 min, I did....then it was ok I can push myself to do 30 min, so Im running along and look down to find Ive been running for 31:30 ... now come on, I was not giving in at that point I only had 3 1/2 min left of the run then the 5 min cool down. So yes folks, I did the whole 35 minutes. The only down side to this whole day was that I had to slow way down to make this happen. I usually run the first mile in about a 10:30, then second in around 11 min and third anywhere from the lowest to about 12 min. But yesterday it was pretty consistent with 12 min miles. Good or bad I dont know, but I do know it allowed me to keep running and complete the program and not give up.
Eric, my friend, good luck with the remaining two days of this program. I know you can do it !!!!!

Completed Week 8 Day 1 yesterday. It went better than I had expected. My goal each time is just to stay running for the given amount of time. [/quote

This is my goal as well. Usually about halfway through I end up going very slow for about 5 minutes until my calves stop burning like crazy. But as long as I'm still jogging and not walking I'm happy.